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girl like me
a girl like me will meet a boy she loves and instead of loving them,
she will think only of the words she will use to describe them,
when she writes a poem that night.
i am not ashamed of my soul that i bear whenever i open it.
a girl like me will write about every person she encounters,
and hope that for some reason they stumble upon it,
and spend the rest of their life wonderi...
Monday 26th December 2022 1:39 pm
he doesn't text me anymore
i think to be unloved is to be damned.
for a while i thought myself damned.
can you really be damned at 16?
i gave him two cigarettes this time,
and offered another two.
he smoked them till the tips of his fingers burned,
i wanted to place them on my lips.
suck them, kiss them, cool them.
i sat across from him, nursing one drink, careful with my teeth and my brow.
he...
Thursday 22nd December 2022 11:37 pm
poets who raise me
oh my stomach! my heart! my chest!
oh it aches, it aches so it does!
forcing pizza down my throat at a table of my enemies and my best friends.
i hurt, i am screaming at them.
my eyes, cant you see the pain in them!
am i not as poetic looking as i seem inside my own head?
i wasnt raised by poets, or ones that believed they were.
i always wished one day i would find an album ...
Tuesday 13th December 2022 8:40 pm
At the Deep Woods
And in the deep woods the creature slowly crept
The snoozing boys deep in slumber continued on how they slept
Even under the chilly blanket of night the creature's spits warm breath
A sound was made when the twig snapped where the creature has stepped
One boy jumped awoke and examines the surrounding in fright
The boy saw only darkness and the glimmering torch they placed
The boy lays once...
Tuesday 13th December 2022 1:41 pm
Sea of Coins
The man sat in the seat of gold
Overlooking nothing and a place once ruled
The clouds surrounds and fright unfolds
Yet, the man stood stern and cold
He reminisced a period where he once king
Once lived as a scholar, a general, and naive
He lacks acceptance and made somebody do his bidding
Causing somebody to grasp his ability to meet death that the man never retrieved
His majesty dropp...
Sunday 11th December 2022 3:03 am
Song of Nil
A tune surrounds the capacious void and the
Fragments of notes encompasses its niches
The volume abloom in shape; loud and announces
Rhythmic flows that proceeds to shatter infringes
Strain of the melodic tune and the lyrical prowess
Tends the ear with musical frisson
Masterpiece beyond sounds, words, and worthy for Aengus
Tranced, like a sailor to a siren and kept bopping on
As the tu...
Friday 9th December 2022 4:38 pm
NOX
The whistle of the wind
And the fate twisted and twined
Under the dark filled with gems
We made love and made other condemns
Mumbling crickets sang their song
And the croaking frogs composed their poem
The endless sky; glimmering yet bright
With you here feelings were delight
The moment and time stood still
And the world was ours to give
Soft tongue and eyes filled with jewel
Is not...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:52 am
Square
Room in dark paint with crumbling walls and hollowed holes
Stares back with its glimmering lights from outside
With the lowered ceilings and sound of bellows
A place fit for safe and a place relied
Crusted floor due to dirt, mud, tears, and blood
Rocking floor and the swaying curtains fuels cry of ballad
Burst of sounds made a powerful gust that shattered glass
A sound that makes its poin...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:51 am
The Love of Bliss
Us driving in the unending road
Bouquet of puff hanging in my lips
With you here time slowly flowed,
for, I glanced over to see your mischievous glimpse
A day I deliberately squandered
To keep seeing your glimpse among the waning crescent we pondered
Gust flows your curls and pollinates its scents
Drunkenly devoted without a drink ferments
Lost in time, lost in asphalt
With only stars...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:45 am
untitled
Dancing in the background of lilac petal
Sapphires surrounds and shined with a vendetta
Gasping the puff of space dust
Walking in thin air, together with the seeping blood lust
Near, yet too far
Celestial bodies barreling towards with no fuss
Words spoken in the pages of grimoire
Unfurled by the curious gust
Synchronized by the effects of cosmic dust
The choreographed pirouette of the...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:43 am
untitled
Strumming the strings of fate
Moving in maelstrom against the natural order of destiny
As the strings lengthen, I’m in stalemate
To counter, to flow, or to simply be
I stand in the space of the night
Looking up, stars staring back
Looking back, decisions stand for condign smite
Still seeking for the perfect tune by a mere playwright
Choices have been chosen, Decisions have been decided
...
Saturday 3rd December 2022 3:41 am
Finding the Deep
When the needle pricks your finger.
When you hide under the covers.
When you look under the bed.
When you go down into the basement.
When you dig up the root in the yard.
When you lay someone to rest.
When you drill to find water.
When you mine for gold.
When the sink hole collapses.
When you drop deep inside Krubera.
When Earth cracks in two and you reach t...
Friday 2nd December 2022 9:12 pm
Critical
Imagine freedom being tied
To how far you can run
Be it from a gun,
your mum
Running from expectations
You're acting like a bum
Someone's son
To succumb to banal pleasures
You bum
Experienced pleanty these few years
But yet still
A master of none
The cat has 9 lives
You live to tell one tale
You've been given plenty of opportunities
And yet you fai...
Monday 28th November 2022 10:30 pm
TAINTED
Tainted words are like shadows
Amid your weak sunny days
Tainted dreams are like the mud
On your black patent leather shoes
You cannot walk towards your hope
Having these sorrowful feet
And with a barefaced kind
Of friend hidden on your mind
Tainted whispers are like a curse
With the promises you've broken
Maybe a thousand times
A sudden storm taints the breeze
...
Monday 28th November 2022 7:55 pm
Excess
i)
Living under a veil of uncertainty one tends to spiral
Denial, Trial and Error the child inside is desperate to come home
Errors and false hopes become tendencies eventually
One and all, once together, all get pushed to the periphery
In a cold winter one tends to call the warm home
Layers that seem adequate we love to deem adequate
A covered fire cannot burn
A covered p...
Sunday 27th November 2022 6:08 pm
refusal is slow
I
i'll be honest,
I refuse to love you.
my chest sits in knots
even in this revelation
the would-be butterflies remain trampled
and God knows they fly all around him
im not sure they even had the chance
to cocoon, your slime-gripped words
of small flames devoured their bloom.
No. Yes. No, im not bitter. Im selfish.
I'm greedy with want, a desire-is-me factory of production
I hold ...
Sunday 27th November 2022 4:26 pm
Dreams
If there's a need to
Wake up from a dream
(If i am in one)
I'll simply close my eyes
And will go to sleep
Sunday 20th November 2022 6:48 am
Just a Thought
We grow up with fantasies in our head
"Become more", naturally I said
That is all I want for you and I
It was only borrowed time
They were only doing what was in their heads
It IS worth sharing
But can it be?
What am I becoming?
What have I said?
Can someone share this with me?
Friday 18th November 2022 9:29 pm
It's occurred to me that I really love the kind of things that represent a beautiful but gentle sadness because it feels like the most accurate reflection of real life and it feels the most like home.
Tuesday 15th November 2022 6:27 am
walking
"i know how to walk from here to there"
okay, i muse back,
"so walk through fires with me, walk through"
i cant. i never have been able to.
the places that i walk from are the mouths of cavernous houses.
and from them ive only just realised i can leave.
"i will give you wings and a heart and a lust for the finer things"
good, i need an incentive.
"but you must act upon...
Tuesday 15th November 2022 12:43 am
After All
After all
In the end
If it was all just one long, strange, and pointless trip
Then it was at least interesting
And that's the most important thing in the world.
Friday 11th November 2022 7:57 am
Mind Fog
Maybe something happens
Which propagates a deep unease
That makes you acknowledge the weight in your brain
And reminds you that you're unwell again
Volumous storm clouds roll in and take hold
As well you sit with your feelings inside your head it seems as though a thousand years drift by within yourself
As you wait for the interminable unrest to pass
Lightning strikes and thun...
Tuesday 8th November 2022 9:58 pm
The Bottle
The Bottle
Sometimes it's easy to take comfort from a bottle
Trying to numb or dull the anxiety
A swill of sweet oakey booze to dissolve those feelings one would rather ignore
But eventually, given enough time, and enough drink
One starts to notice that bottle isn't your friend
It doesn't work
It doesn't numb anything
In fact, most of the time, it boils and churns up and c...
Thursday 3rd November 2022 7:12 pm
there's a couple sitting two seats in front
sitting on a train with my head bowed in a quiet mourning for the couple sitting two seats in front.
or really for me.
i mourn for me, me and my love and its cramps.
im in love, im in love and once more im in love.
not with anyone but with everyone, or anyone who'd see it through.
then each time i remember that the only thing i want to be is noticed,
someone can notice that, eve...
Tuesday 1st November 2022 10:35 pm
Ebook out and charting!
It's made the charts at Amazon.co.uk! Top 4, could it rise up more?!
Help a fellow WOL poet out and get your own copy of The Writing Group.
Monday 31st October 2022 12:54 am
Hypnotica
Hypnotica
The girl showed her fangs, most when alone
Her nails grew bigger, clear and they’re cold;
Escort; chaperone.
She showed her fangs when she got him alone
Clawing at skin; she’s ice and she’s cold
Showed her his doors and how they won’t close
Inside the living; curtains and carpets stained with cologne.
Epoxy the vase, stuck on the phone
Shirt into shre...
Saturday 29th October 2022 5:53 pm
Love is Strange
Love is a strange thing isn't it. Many got blessed by the love as it transformed their lives picking them up from bottom and taking them to the heights of the sky. And for some its a curse that only put sorrow and misery in their lives.
Once someone said something very beautiful about love and who loves the most a man or a woman.
By every mistake a man made and woman forgives just adds ...
Thursday 27th October 2022 6:02 am
a player’s skill set
experience is experience of a skill set
to tell of a experience is to tell of a skill set
to tell a tale of a experience is to tell a tale of a skill set
a tale of experience is a tale of a skill set
a skill set is a set of skill
a set of skill is a set of a player’s skill
a player’s skill is a player’s set of skill
to tell a tale is to tell a player’s experience
a player’s experience is...
Monday 17th October 2022 7:02 pm
Wound up with Love
Wound up with Love is Clive Donovan's second collection. A pamphlet published by Lapwing of Belfast in 2022.
A selection of poems all about love and its difficulties. Dedicated "To all the girls"
It is said of this book that wherever you are on your love journey you will find yourself on one of these pages.
Friday 7th October 2022 2:51 pm
More on The Taste of Glass
Richard Palmer for South Magazine, commenting on The Taste of Glass: "[The poet] is both the observer and the observed, trapped on the other side and her real kiss still tastes of glass. The poet adopts a range of personae...ranges widely in scale...tone too..."
Friday 7th October 2022 2:43 pm
The Taste of Glass Reviews
What they said about The Taste of Glass, Clive Donovan's first poetry collection published by Cinnamon Press:
"A treasure trove of sharp insights and fresh ideas" Clifton Redmond for The High Window
"Mighty powerful stuff" Sam Smith ed. The Journal
"Wild and meaningful" Fred Beake
"Poems of nuance and feeling" Robert Garnham
Friday 7th October 2022 2:31 pm
a claim of a universe
the universe is a claim of a claim
the universe is a claim of a stake
to claim the universe is to direct the universe
the future direct the future
the future direct the stake of the future
the stake of the future is the direct of the future
the stake of the future is the stake of a direction
the universe is a direct universe
the universe is a direct claim
science claim science
the dire...
Monday 3rd October 2022 8:15 pm
Mersey Poets bring peace to Palm House
Merseyside poets, singers and musicians are getting together to perform a handful of events inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Organised by Wirral poets Michelle Wright and Barry Woods, the events highlight current conflicts around the world and feature work from their new community anthology ‘Poets for Peace’, which is available to read for free on Facebook.
‘We are u...
Tuesday 27th September 2022 1:43 pm
hear it now!
if you show yourself to me
i will disappear under the vastness of linen filled lines.
i will run through clouded streets until my legs give way.
if you loan yourself to me
the farthest hills out yonder
arent far enough for me.
the distance to be put 'tween us
by me,
must be longer than the wizened vines that grow from your mothers childhood home.
must be wider th...
Friday 23rd September 2022 9:48 pm
sure
i miss the child i was at 17.
i miss 17, i miss missing, i miss loving nothing.
i miss wanting to feel and not being old enough to get it yet.
i miss thinking i was emotionally literate.
im 19.
nineteen.
i am still a baby, a kid, a viriginal chalice not yet ready to be drunk from.
there is no slow down, you crazy child when it comes to me.
my onlookers wince as i choo...
Wednesday 21st September 2022 10:32 pm
big girls don't cry except when it is absolutely not the right time to do so.
am i hungry or has the pit returned.
that stupid fucking pit.
its an eternal loop, circling in and out of itself.
floating dead centre in my gut.
particles of another girl explode and expand out of it,
overcome by this strange girl from the strange world.
i weep on my mothers lap,
i retch over porcelin, patterned.
seeing my sister for the first time in weeks,
she glow...
Monday 19th September 2022 9:32 pm
a tiger vengeance
the eye of the tiger is,
the eye of a vengeance
the eye of the tiger is,
the eye of a clash tiger
the eye of the tiger is,
the lure of a tiger
the eye of the tiger is,
the lure of a vengeance
vengeance is a lure of a vengeance
vengeance is a lure of a tiger
resolution is a lure of resolution
resolution is a lure of a tiger
a tiger resolution is a tiger lure of resolution
a tiger res...
Friday 16th September 2022 8:04 pm
Star-walking
Don't ever say it's over
If we are breathing
Racing to the moonlight
Baby we are speeding
Got you from that heaven
I'll be up even for a 1000 nights
from those days to our years
Be ready we'll be taking flights
Keeping love in this young heart
as I would ever dream of
can't even close my eyes
as this reality is even better than I dreamt of
Like both sides of the sun
scorches and...
Friday 16th September 2022 3:14 pm
don't hmu.
youre a good little girl,
he types.
youre submissive arent you,
he moans, over text.
he expects a beguiled,
blushing emoji in response.
what he gets is three dots and an empty silence so loud he remembers what he is.
a greasy teen (21 years of age).
a lusty manchild looking for another child.
he tells me im a cute and submissive girl,
with luscious milk bags.
...
Wednesday 14th September 2022 12:43 am
I couldn't think of another stanza
curled on a velvet chair
in a darkening room
is a monstorous teen.
outside the blackening,
is a fading pink sky.
the clouds within whisper to shepards,
"Delighted I Hope"
and on the highest grassy hills,
the shepards face eternity.
Friday 9th September 2022 8:08 pm
Remember me
Remember me
for even I'm far away
Keeping our love alive
I'll never fade away
Think of me
Don't let it make u cry
Just a little longer
I promise we'll eventually defy
Feel me
When scared just close ur eyes
I'll always hold u in my heart
I'll make u fly all those skies
Believe in me
I'll be yours in all my lives
for the love we have
Ho...
Friday 9th September 2022 7:36 pm
Dove
It's not living if it's without you, my love
what about this feeling inside,
the warmness coming from a song by that dove.
and if it's not living if it's without you love,
then I'll keep hearing that song
Just from your dove.
*here, dove means heart.
Friday 9th September 2022 7:36 pm
My princess
The feeling of grief is scary,
so do i used to think.
Seems special thinking about her up all
Can't get her out even when I blink.
she keeps the secret in her eyes,
even when she's in a hurricane.
doesn't let's me tangle in those sights,
not giving up in her arcane.
even...
Friday 9th September 2022 7:34 pm
Will you kiss me
Kiss me, will you kiss me,
Under the deep blue night,
Make it long, make it last,
Make it so right.
Embrace me, will you embrace me,
Deep in the moonlight,
Make it strong, make it warm,
Make it so tight.
Stay with me in this moment here,
Please don’t ever leave me,
Your the only girl I’ll ever want,
Yours, I shall eternally be.
Friday 9th September 2022 7:32 pm
I promise
You gave me sunshine,
when I had only rain,
You brought me happiness,
when I only knew pain.
You gave me light,
when darkness filled my world,
You beautified my life,
when you became my girl.
I want to hold you in my arms,
So you can feel my heart beat.
I will embrace you so deeply,
That our two souls shall meet.
I want to kiss you so sweetly,
...Friday 9th September 2022 7:30 pm
Acting
Because In those 10-15 minutes of a scene,
I’m not me.
I'm a completely different person, in a completely different world.
A world that doesn’t really exist.
Then reality hits and you wake up from the dream.
The dream that was so real, and so fake.
And you remember who you “really” are…
Or do you.
Feeling Kinda Lost
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 6:33 am
Memories
The most beautiful part about life are memories.
We can feel them, deep inside our hearts.
See them, right in front of our eyes.
But most importantly…
We can relive them, as many times as we want.
- M
Tuesday 23rd August 2022 6:16 am
in/out
one day I woke up
tired of taking the oxygen in my lungs for granted
so now I breathe
deliberately
and as I breathe
so I live
Sunday 7th August 2022 10:20 am
The Origin of Silence
He came like an ancient prophecy
sparked by the howling of the seasons.
Those who pursued him knew nothing of his arts
They did not see him sewn into the four winds
They did not hear him no matter how loud he sang.
In this time of virus and plague true hunger bares its teeth.
A fierce breaking, a shaking and a flailing
A swooning and a sweating, a cruel fever falling
All ab...
Sunday 7th August 2022 6:39 am
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